Think also of our environment, our health, places, faces, food, events, cars, technology . . .
Thursday, January 31, 2008
How is driving?
Soccer Balls and Portable Soccer Equipment
Soccer game is a wonderful sport; and I believe it should be introduced to kids as early as possible, preferably at age 6. To rouse their interests in the game, parents may bring their kids to watch soccer games or give them soccer ball. To train your kids and improve their skills, you can find Soccer Balls and other soccer training equipment online at Soccergoalzinc.com. It carries the brand Franklin Sports, a company with over 50 years experience in the business. You can choose from the selection of portable soccer goals, soccer rebounders, soccer nets and soccer backstops, which can be carried anywhere. Aside from soccer equipment, Soccergoalzinc.com also markets portable Street Hockey goals and equipment.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Affordable Prescription Eyeglasses
ZenniOptical only sells their own manufactured products directly to the customer; thus, unnecessary expenses are avoided. Hence, it can afford to make its products incredibly affordable. Despite low priced, the quality of the products is not compromised. Its certified technicians are tasked to meticulously check and assure the quality of the orders. Further, every pair of ZenniOptical eyeglasses, even the lowest $ 8 Zenni Optical Rx Eyeglasses , has high quality stylish frame, thin and light 1.57 index lens, anti scratch coating, full UV protection, lens edge polishing and beveling, quality hard eyeglass case, microfiber lens cleaning cloth, and, most of all, full satisfaction guarantee.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Pamunuan San Lalawigan Sa Leyte
The title is literally translated as the Capitol of the
In 1944, it became the seat of the Commonwealth Government of Philippines when the then President Sergio Osmena came in with the WW II Liberation Forces.
I have been toI SHALL RETURN!
Saturday, January 26, 2008
PhotoHunt 94 - Old-fashioned
It's photo album. With the advent of latest and sophisticated technology - computer, internet, CD/DVD, digital camera, storing pictures in a physical photo album is becoming or already an old-fashioned. Instead, photos are being stored in computer's hard disk, CD/DVD and online photo album. Unlike the physical pictures, the quality of the digital pictures remains good and intact. Actually, physical pictures are now being converted digitally.
photohunt
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
No Sticker, No Exit
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Coupon Chief for Valentine's Day
"Stupid Cupid
You're a real mean guy
I'd like to clip your wings
So you can't fly
I am in love and it's a crying shame
And I know that you're the one to blame. . ."
Valentine’s Day is just less than a month away. It is a special day for lovers. But, forget stupid cupid. All we need is CouponChief’s online shopping coupons to celebrate this love day wonderfully.
For this event, I am still thinking for the presents to give to my wife and two kids. My wife would love to receive a dozen roses. And, perhaps a perfume for my son and a make-up kit for my daughter. I have searched CouponChief and looked for Overstock coupons, Spalook deals, and Fleurop coupon codes for my wishlist. While searching, I found the printer that I was looking for at Fujitsu; and the corkscrew at Wine Enthusiast. Also, for my computer paraphernalia and shoes, I will check Dell.com and Shoebuy.com, respectively.
If you have not made your wishlist yet, you could go to CouponChief and search for the perfect gifts for your loved ones.
Advance Happy Valentine's Day.
PhotoHunt 93 - Important
The one wearing the patient’s gown and short is me. I had my executive check-up last month. Our company requires us to undergo executive check-up annually; as this is very IMPORTANT to monitor our health conditions. Many people have been diagnosed with major and dreaded diseases when it is already too late because they fail or refuse to undergo regular check-ups. Medical check-ups, whether required or not, should be done regularly to monitor our physical and health conditions to prevent or early detect any physical or health disorder in our bodies.
When was the last time you visited your doctor for check-up? If it is more than a year ago, it is IMPORTANT to re-visit him/her again.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Construction Skills
Construction Skills provide information, trainings and qualifications to enhance workers’ proficiency within the industry. For employers, they can register in CITB - Construction Skills Grant their current apprentices in their businesses and have that chance to teach and train young starting workers. On the other hand, experienced workers can improve their skillfulness by going through assessments and trainings, which could earn them enough competence for qualifications such as National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs), Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQs), and Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card.
Construction industry gives lots of opportunities for labors. However, there are also lots of others competing for it. Workers could build up their skills and then their careers. Be ahead of everyone through Cskills’ trainings and qualifications.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
We believe we could fly
The flights were attempted at Camp John Hay, Baguio City.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Unlimited Calling Plan
Using iConnectHere service is very simple. All you need are broadband internet connection, home router and telephone. It works like a regular phone. But it’s loaded with more features; such as voicemail, caller ID, 3-way calling, call waiting, and many more.
Sign up now and enjoy big savings on unlimited international calls.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
SBMA Flag Pole
The Official Website of RBS 6 Nations
You can search for your favorite teams and players, check the teams' statistics, all time statistics, and players' statistics and compare them with other players. It also has interactive games and podcast section, where you can see and watch the video highlights of previous games. From its Fanzone section, you can download wallpapers and screensavers, sign up to newsletter to receive the latest news and information, venue guides, and play exciting online rugby games. Its official Online Store offers rugby merchandise and official licensed products, such as shirts, beanies, ties, and microfleece. Credit card payments are accepted at store – VISA, Mastercard, Delta, and VISA Electron.
The website also features other six nations rugby tournaments: the Under 20’s Championship, Under 18’s Festival, and Women’s Championship.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
My current page rank
This blog’s page rank is, or should I say was, PR2. I was checking my PayPerPost account, when I noticed that the Google page rank of this blog is no longer 2 but zero. I think it has already suffered the same fate as my other blog, Think of Me! - its PR3 evaporated in thin air. Ironically, I knew a new blog that is two months old, less active, with four posts only, and with little or practically no traffic but already have PR2. My other blog, which was dormant for a long time and has five entries only, had PR3. It’s funny, isn’t it? Is page ranking realistic or it is just manipulating the cyber world?
My current Alexa rank is 1,145, 722 from 1,741,361 a month ago.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Another attempt to withdraw from Paypal
- Credit cards with VISA logo only are acceptable. Other credit cards, such as AMEX, Mastercard can be used in other transactions.
- The minimum withdrawal is US$10; and the maximum withdrawal per day is US$500;
- The processing period is 5 to 7 days, but it still depends on the card issuer’s policy;
- The withdrawal fee is $5;
- The return fee is $10, if the withdrawn fund is returned to Paypal due to incomplete and incorrect information in the withdrawal request.
Since I have no VISA credit card yet, I tried to enroll my wife’s Metrobank VISA. YES! It was accepted; and it was not required to be enrolled in the Expanded Use Program (if for withdrawal purpose only). So, I attempted to withdraw to her VISA card. I entered the amount to be withdrawn and clicked the "Continue" button. On the review page, however, my name and not my wife’s name appeared as the “Name on Card”. During the enrollment, I edited my name to that of my wife in the form as the card holder. But, apparently, Paypal assumes that the Paypal account holder is the same as the holder of enrolled credit card.
Thus, I hesitated to confirm the transaction lest I might be charged $10 return fee due to incorrect information. I just canceled it.
Meantime, while my fund is accumulating, I’d would apply for a credit card with VISA logo or request my wife’s card issuer to issue an extension card for me.
PhotoHunt 92 : Skinny
Skinny may mean thin or lean. Could it also mean full of skin? Anyway, my PhotoHunt entry for this theme is a “lechon” or roasted pig. When I went to Tacloban City, Philippines last year, I brought home a whole lechon. What I like most in lechon is its crispy skin. The pigs they roast in Tacloban are not the fatty but the leaner ones. Tacloban lechons are already delectable even without the lechon sauce.
Best Value Prescription Eyeglasses
ZenniOptical.com is an online store of best value and stylish prescription eyeglasses. You can find from their wide selection of eyeglasses the one that you need: with single vision lens, sunsensor lens, bifocal lens, progressive lens, and tinted sunglasses lens. The quality of the frames and lenses are of high quality yet very affordable. You can buy for as low as $8 complete prescription eyeglasses with case.
Please visit Great Discovery: www.ZenniOptical.com and see how easy and simple to search and order for the right and perfect eyeglasses for you.
Friday, January 11, 2008
I couldn't withdraw from my Paypal
I checked first how much would I withdraw. It’s $750; but wait! there’s a limit of $500 per day. That’s just fine. I clicked the Withdraw tab and tried to withdraw. Holy cow! I couldn’t use my AMEX card for withdrawal. It only accepts credit card, debit card, or prepaid card with VISA logo. I thought I could already use my AMEX to withdraw once I completed my Expanded Use enrolment. But, I was wrong! No, the instruction is misleading. It says, "Add a card to your PayPal account to raise your sending limit, withdraw funds from your PayPal account, use as backup funding, or confirm your address."
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Best Response
If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman. He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the policeman's credibility...
Q: 'Officer -- did you see my client fleeing the scene?'
A: 'No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running several blocks away.'
Q: 'Officer -- who provided this description?'
A: 'The officer who responded to the scene.'
Q: 'A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?'
A: 'Yes, sir. With my life.'
Q: 'With your life ? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?'
A: 'Yes sir, we do!'
Q: 'And do you have a locker in the room?'
A: 'Yes sir, I do.'
Q: 'And do you have a lock on your locker?'
A: 'Yes sir.'
Q: 'Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same officers?'
A: 'You see, sir -- we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room.'
The courtroom erupted in laughter, and a prompt recess was called. The officer on the stand has been nominated for this year's 'Best Comeback' line -- and we think he'll win.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
World Pyro Olympics - 2008
The Annual World Pyro Olympics is going to be held in the Philippines again. Here is the schedule of the fireworks shows and the participating countries:
- February 16 (Saturday) - China and Germany
- February 23 (Saturday) - Japan and Australia
- March 1 (Saturday) - Korea and Dubai
- March 8 (Saturday) - Italy and Venezuela
- March 15 (Saturday) - France and Philippines.
The venue is at the Bay Area of Mall of Asia, Pasay City, Philippines.
Don’t miss this wonderful event.
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A Lesson in Arithmetic
Do you want to know if you are good in arithmetic? Take this simple test. I did; and my answers are all correct. This was emailed to me by an officemate from Pampanga; and I’d like to share it with you.
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Where did this P1.3 billion go?
A LESSON IN ARITHMETIC
Subject: Fr. Ed Panlilio - Governor of Pampanga
I’m 100% sure this income disparity is replicated in all the provinces of the Philippines. If we had more Ed Panlilios in our government, we would be just like Singaporein a short time. Read on……
We hope we are witnessing what will be a sustained revolution in good governance in the Province of Pampanga, under its newly elected governor, Fr. Ed Panlilio. According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer of August 26, only one month after Fr. Panlilio assumed his gubernatorial duties, the province’s income from the quarrying of volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubohad reached P29.4 million. (Haulers pay a fee of P300 per truck of volcanic ash that they haul from the quarry.) By contrast, during his predecessor Mark Lapid’s term as governor, the province’s income from the same quarrying operations amounted to only P29 million a year.
This gaping variation in official incomes from the same activity should inspire a new set of textbooks in Arithmetic, especially for the school children of Pampanga. There is nothing like local color and local situations to cultivate comprehension in young minds.
Sample problems: If Fr. Ed’s provincial government can collect P29.4 million in 26 days (we assume no quarrying on Sundays), how much does it collect in one day?
Answer: An average of P1.130 million.
If Fr. Ed’s provincial government collects an average of P1.130 million a day from quarrying operations, how much can it collect in one year of 313 days (365 days less 52 Sundays)? Answer: P353, 690,000, or P354 million.
If Fr. Ed’s provincial government can collect P354 million a year, and Mark Lapid’s provincial government collected only P29 million a year, what is the difference in their official yearly collections?
Answer: P325 million a year.
If Mark Lapid was governor for four years and his provincial government’s annual collections from quarrying amounted to an average of P29 million, how much did his provincial govt. officially collect in four years?
Answer: P116 million.
If Fr. Ed manages to remain as provincial governor for four years, and his provincial government’s annual collection from quarrying were to average P354 million, how much will his provincial government collect in four years?
Answer: P1.416 billion.
What is the difference between P1.416 billion and P116 million?
Answer: P1.3 billion.
Where did this P1.3 billion go?
Answer: Only God and the Lapids know. (’Lapids’ is in plural because Mark, as a second generation political dynast, succeeded his own father, now Sen. Lito Lapid.
We don’t know how much Lito’s provincial government officially collected from quarrying operations during his watch. Should be a good investigative project for media.) If Gawad Kalinga spends an average of P75,000 per low cost house, how many low-cost houses can P1.3 billion build?
Answer: 17,333 low-cost houses.
If the average Pampanga family were to consist of five persons (father, mother, three children), how many people would be benefited by 17,333 low-cost houses?
Answer: 86,665 persons.
End of Arithmetic lesson.
Fr. Ed is to be congratulated for setting a high benchmark for collection from quarrying operations against which his predecessors have a moral obligation to explain why their collections were so low, and against which future governors will be judged by the people of Pampanga.
Volcanic ash, by the way, is a superior building material. Many of the buildings, aqueducts & monuments of the Roman Empirethat have survived for almost 2,000 years are known to have been built w/ volcanic ash, quarried from the environs of Mount Vesuviusafter it erupted in 79 AD.
We don’t expect Fr.Ed’s moral victory in Pampanga to be remembered for the next 2,000 yrs. We would be happy with five, ten or 20 years, enough, we hope, to spawn a moral-revolution- by- example to save the Filipinos from their worst enemies - themselves. GOOD LUCK Philippines!
“Therefore, the primary cause of poverty is not overpopulation of the Philippines! It’s because our country is overpopulated with corrupt officials”!
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The Feast of the Black Nazarene
Some roads in the area will be closed to traffic. Thus, heavy traffic is expected in the nearby areas. Please check Trapik.com for the traffic advisory.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
PhotoHunt 91 : Delicious
When we returned to Subic Bay, we had our lunch at the Xtremely Xpresso Cafe. We ordered a combo large pizza, spaghetti and buffalo wing. The pizza is so DELICIOUS that I think I could eat half of it.
Your Credit Network
Looking and applying for credit cards are easy as walking in the park if you knew where to start. There is an online network that provides information about credit cards – Your Credit Network, which is the right starting point. Your Credit Network specializes on informing consumers about credit cards information and offers. From it website, you can find the information and/or reviews of the most popular credit cards from the leading card issuers, such as the Capital One, American Express, Bank of America, Citibank, Discover, etc. Thus, it will save you the trouble, effort and time of researching for each and every credit card for the basic information and features. All you have to do is check and compare the credit cards features that would best fit your needs and budget. For your convenience, the site gives you the option to search by features, by bank or credit card issuers, or by credit card names. To help you decide, you can visit its credit card blog or the FAQ section of the site for more information, advices and tips. And, if you find the perfect credit card for you, you can instantly apply online with Your Credit Network.
Your Credit Network is not offering you credit cards only but tips and advises on how to use them wisely and intelligently. Having a credit card has more advantages than disadvantages. If properly and wisely used, a credit card holder would reap all the benefits of having credit cards and none of the disadvantages. Otherwise, a credit card holder might impulsively use the credit card and get into serious financial trouble later on. And, we don’t want to happen.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Happy First Anniversary to Macuha.com
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Visit Ireland
The best city destination, or the entry point, is of course the
From
If you decided to travel to
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Cash Advance
Applying online for a cash advance or personal loan is simple, quick and secured. Loan processing is fast; as, in many cases, there are no documents to fax, no credit check, and no collateral is required. And, you can get instant approval, if you are at least 18 years old, have a job or regular source of income of at least $1,000 monthly, and a checking account. As soon as the loan is approved, the loan amount shall be electronically deposited into your bank account. And, you can withdraw it the day after and use it for your intended purpose.
Paying your loan is hassle free as the loan amount and the fee will be automatically withdrawn from your account. However, in the event that you are unable to pay your loan and the finance fee in full on your due date, you can pay the finance fee and portion of the principal amount only or just the finance fee only. These options may be subject to some additional terms and conditions.
My personal note. I don’t encourage applying for cash advance or payday loan just to spend it for your whims or buy unnecessary things. It should be used only on immediate, urgent, and emergency cash needs. Regularly using cash advance or payday loans may put your in deep financial trouble.